Low oil prices, pressure from OPEC may force some shale drillers to abandon abundant oil fields

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    In 2015, the fracking companies dotting America’s oil-rich plains threw everything they had at $50-a-barrel crude. To cope with the 50% price plunge, they laid off thousands of roughnecks, focused t…


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